Dilatris pillansii flowering in summer on the flats east of the Franschhoek Pass in the Boland mountains, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Dilatris pillansii flowering in summer under burnt skeletons of male shrubs of Leucadendron laureolum in fynbos burnt the previous summer on the Smitswinkelvlakte in the southern Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

A white form of Dilatris pillansii flowering in summer on the flats east of the Franschhoek Pass in the Boland mountains, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Dilatris pillansii flowering in early summer on the southern Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]